One Canal (formerly Greenway Center) | Bullfinch Triangle | West End

[goldenretrievers]

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[fattony]

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

I walked past this on Saturday night for the first time since it is up. First and only impression:

This puppy is huge.

 

[goldenretrievers]

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[George_Apley]

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Truly snail's pace on this one...

 

[BeeLine]

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https://flic.kr/p/rMVAUT
Facing going up on the NE corner

 

[Arborway]

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https://flic.kr/p/rMVAUT
Facing going up on the NE corner

I zoomed in on the cladding. Wish I hadn't.

 

[davem]

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[Charlie_mta]

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I zoomed in on the cladding. Wish I hadn't.

Wow, I zoomed in also. Those panels do look extremely dreary, as do the mobile home quality windows.

Hopefully we'll all be surprised with the finished product, but for now...ughhh!

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

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I think the unfortunate truth is that they developer had to spend so much on engineering the building over the subway and vent below that they cut back on the facade. I pray that it's just this side, the back end, that they went cheap on and the front facing side has a bit more charm.

 

[kz1000ps]

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[stellarfun]

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In the last KZ photo, is that a sign that something is about to start on the Merano site?

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Perhaps? I assumed it was staging for One Canal and didn't pay it any more attention, but you very well may be right.

 

[goldenretrievers]

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[stick n move]

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hmmm ^

 

[RandomWalk]

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

That last photo makes it look like a decrepit mid-century apartment block looming over the older, and more finely detailed buildings on Canal St.

 

[Charlie_mta]

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Definitely a low point in architecture for this city. Should get the Fugly award of the year.

 

[Shepard]

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Decades from now this will be considered a crime as hefty as
Government Center.

 

[underground]

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Start the clock now. I'm putting the over/under for the inevitable "it's not as bad as I thought, actually, I like it" at five weeks.

 

[stick n move]

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Yes i think the front of it is going to be fine

 

[Equilibria]

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Decades from now this will be considered a crime as hefty as
Government Center.

It looks like a slightly more ordinary version of Hayward Place. It's fine. A little bit of a missed opportunity to do something spectacular on that very visible face, but they had a lot of constraints.